Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Dakota scouts traveling in a group of several hundred toward New Ulm, where an attack was planned, reached Little Crow's village to gather belongings left behind during the siege and saw Anderson and his command, a burial detail of 150 volunteer soldiers and civilians sent from Fort Ridgely to bury victims of the war raging across the region. Many of the sketches reproduced along this trail were made by Albert Colgrave, a 22-year-old artist who joined Company G, 6th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, in September 1862 around the time the U.S.-Dakota War broke out; already becoming well known in St. Paul for his theatrical backdrops, he sketched dozens of battle scenes during the war before dying of typhoid fever in Glencoe, Minnesota, in March 1863.

Minnesota · United States